John 20:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. ”

• John 20:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As my Father hath sent me - As God sent me to preach, to be persecuted, and to suffer; to make known his will, and to offer pardon to men, so I send you. This is the design and the extent of the...

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• John 20:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Coming to the Disciples. The first Christian Sunday is spent in Jerusalem, where the disciples are in hiding. The interpretation of Mark 14:50 as implying an immediate flight of the apostles...

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• John 20:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  My Father . The Father. See John 1:14 . sent. Greek. apostello. App-174. even so . I also. send. Greek. pempo. App-174. Note the distinction. The Father sent the Son alone, but the Son...

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• John 20:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  21. Jesus saith to them again, Peace be to you. This second salutation appears to me to have no other object than that the Lord should receive such a degree of attention as was due to the gr...

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• John 20:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1731 INSPIRATION AND AUTHORITY OF THE APOSTLES John 20:21-23 . Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you. And when he had said th...

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• John 20:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. Even so send I you - As I was sent to proclaim the truth of the Most High, and to convert sinners...

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• John 20:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  As my Father hath sent me, &c.— "As my heavenly Father sent me into the world, to discharge the office of the Messiah; even so I, by my plenary authority, and in proof of my mediatorial commiss...

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• John 20:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. Then said Jesus to them again - now that they were not only calmed, but prepared to listen to...

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• John 20:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Resurrection 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; fo...

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• John 20:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you. — These words may be here a solemn repetition of the greeting in John 20:19 , by which our Lord’s own message of peace is immediately connected wi...

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• John 20:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIII. THOMAS' TEST. "When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in...

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• John 20:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Risen Christ Brings Peace John 20:19-25 Evidently our Lord was clothed in the spiritual body of which the Apostle speaks, not subject to the laws governing physical life. Twice He uttered t...

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• John 20:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, a...

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• John 20:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. (19) Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors...

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• John 20:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then said Jesus to them again ,.... The words he said before: peace be unto you ; which he repeated, to put them out of their fright, by reason of which they returned him no answer; and to raise a...

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• John 20:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. Ver. 21. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace ] The common salutation among the Jews (the Turk...

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• John 20:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then said Jesus again, Peace be unto you This is the foundation of the mission of a true gospel minister; peace in his own soul, in consequence of his having received pardoning mercy from God throu...

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• John 20:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incr...

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• John 20:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ with His Disciples.       19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the d...

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• John 20:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Peace be unto you; the repeating of this salutation speaketh it more than an ordinary compliment, or form of salutation. It signifieth his reconciliation to them, notwithstanding their error in for...

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• John 20:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Appears To All The Apostles Apart From Thomas ( John 20:19-23 ).

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• John 20:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 20:19 . Evening of that day. — I.e. the day on which our Lord rose from the dead.— When the doors were shut. —St. John notices this fact, not only to show ho...

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• John 20:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 20:15-23 Next to the absence of all notice of our Lord's mother, few things are more remarkable in the narrative of the period after the resurrection, than the silence respecting John. I. Jo...

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• John 20:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 20:11-12 . But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and th...

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• John 20:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 20:2 . They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre. After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that Jo...

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• John 20:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then the same day at evening The first Lord’s Day evening I. THE ANXIOUS COMPANY. The twelve, with the exception of Judas and Thomas, were gathered and kept together by a community of interest...

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• John 20:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 20:1-43 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the gre...

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• John 20:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Two Appearances to the Assembled Disciples. On the evening of Easter Day:

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• John 20:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Timothy 2:2 ; Acts 1:8 ; Hebrews 3:1 ; Isaiah 63:1-3 ; John 13:20 ; John 14:27 ; John 17:18 ; John 17:19 ; John 21:15-17 ; Luke 24:47-49 ; Mark 16:15-18 ; Matthew 10:16 ; Matthew 10:40...

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• John 20:21 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Resurrection of Christ John 20:1-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wra...

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• John 20:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Peace be unto you — This is the foundation of the mission of a true Gospel minister, peace in his own soul, 2 Corinthians 4:1 . As the Father hath sent me, so send I you — Christ was the apostle o...

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